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To somewhat reluctantly go: Star Trek Timelines tries to redeem an ill-served franchise this fall

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We'll give it a Troi.

We’ll give it a Troi.

We’re big Star Trek fans here at PT HQ high atop Mount Hexmap — just look at the three-dimensional chess set that Clancy and Neumann have ginned up out of old juice boxes and gruel bowls down in the Writers’ Dungeon. But it would be an unfortunate falsehood to say that we’re big fans of Star Trek games.

Star Trek‘s track record with mobile games is uglier than the grotty oil slick that killed Tasha Yar. Last year there was a nostalgia-driven hamster wheel masquerading as a game called Star Trek Trexels. Back in 2013 there was the insipid Triple Triad clone Star Trek Rivals — the less said about which the better.

On the bright side, there’s nowhere to go but up for the newly-announced Star Trek Timelines. It’s due out this autumn for iOS and Android from developers Disruptor Beam, who were responsible the free-to-play title Game of Thrones Ascent earlier this year. GoT Ascent was a very deft handling of the license — the game truly felt like a part of the show’s universe. But it was also almost entirely devoid of anything like real gameplay. It was a timer game that had more in common with Cow Clicker than Crusader Kings, and if I was hellbent on saying something nice about it I would call it “almost interesting”.

So set your expectation phasers to the lowest setting for Star Trek Timelines, which looks very pretty in the trailer after the jump. You’ll note that the trailer (which features the always delightful John de Lancie) talks a lot about atmosphere and a sense of “being there” whilst avoiding discussion of gameplay entirely. Were I a cynic I would suggest that that’s because there isn’t any gameplay to speak of, but I’m not a cynic. Star Trek Timelines might be just fantastic.

Anything’s possible.


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